412, Lot: 780. Estimate $750. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Comtat-Venaissin. temp. Popes Clement VI–Gregory XI, 1342-1378. AV Florin (19mm, 3.50 g, 12h). Avignon mint. • S • IOHA-NNES • B •, St. John the Baptist standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding cruciform scepter; papal tiara to upper left / SANT PETRH, Florentine lily. Muntoni 2 (Urban V); Duplessy 1782 (mid 14th century); Boudeau 902 (John XXII); Friedberg 27 (John XXII). Good VF.

From the Norman Frank Collection.